IGNCA's special tributes to Manganiyar -- A folk song of Rajsathan
Indira Gandhi National Center for the Art (IGNCA), dedicates its last evening of the 2017 to the ‘Mangniyar's’ folk song of Rajasthan, at the beginning of the program, Sachchidanand Joshi, Member Secretary (MS) of IGNCA given the information about the program, he said that today's folk music concert is the second concert of ‘Sanjari' series, in which today we organised ‘Manganiyar' the songs of the great folk music tradition of Rajasthan. Manganiyar folklore is an integral part of the cultural heritage of Rajasthan, in which the Manganiyar community congratulates their ‘Yajman' on various auspicious occasions through songs of Mangniyar and giving them blessings. MS Joshi said that the IGNCA started the Sanjari program on its 30th Foundation Day, he says .. “India have a great legacy of folk music, in which classical ragas are also used very well, through Sanjari we want to fill up the gap between classical and folk music and at the same time we are trying to reach folk music to its pure form. Through this program, we are also trying to preserve folk music traditions.” Anwar Khan started his singing with Gajanan Vandana in Raga Todi whose words were in Maharaj Gajanand Ao ji Mahro Mandali. Through which singer invited lord Ganesha and guests. After that the presentations were the Ghodriyali song i.e., welcomes song, the Halario song, which Manganiyar artist sings at the time of the birth of the child in his host, in which the description of Krishna form is described. In classical singing singers sing Raga Bhairavi in concluding, but there is no such restriction in folk music, Anwar Khan sung Banna song Kesar Banna Pall Pall laggo Koi in the Raga Bhairavi to describe when the child grows, The Sundariyo song makeup song of the bride that was beautiful play in Rag Khamaj by Anwar Khan. He performed very well two different situation songs of Holi festival in the same Raga Todi and Telang. Apart from this, Anwar Khan finished the evening of this folk music with a Sufi bhajan, some Virah songs, the songs of the three seasons. Morchung and dholak jugalbandi were also very special in this program.
FINANCIAl ClOSURE OF GHATAMPUR THERMAl POWER STATION OF NUPPl
NUPPl, a Joint Venture Company of NlC India ltd., has achieved financial closure of its power project of 1980 MW (3 x 660 MW) by agreeing to a loan arrangement of `11067 crore with a consortium led by Power Finance Corporation ltd with other members viz. State Bank of India (SBI) and Rural Electrification Corporation limited (REC). The Joint Venture Company is owned by NlCIl and UPRVUNl with share holding of 51:49 respectively. The sanctioned project cost is `17237.80 crore and is planned to be funded with a debt equity ratio of 70:30. The company has already tied up loan for `1,000 crore with Bank of India earlier. The loan arrangement for the project has been made through a transparent open tendering process giving advantage of competitive rate and expected to result into a savings of more than `700 Crore in project cost. Dr Sarat Kumar Acharya, CMD, NlCIl & Chairman, NUPPl, Susheel Kumar (IAS), Secretary, Ministry of Coal, GoI, Rajeev Sharma, CMD, Power Finance Corporation ltd., Rakesh Kumar, Director/Finance, NlCIl during the Financial Closure Ceremony of Ghatampur Thermal Power Project (3 X 660 MW), Neyveli Uttar Pradeh Power ltd., (A Joint Venture of NlCIl and UPRUVUNl). Also seen are senior officers of Consortium and other delegates.
IGl organises Saksham Cyclothon in Noida & Ghaziabad
Dr Harsh Vardhan, Union Minister for Science & Technology; Environment, Forest & Climate Change and Earth Sciences leads the six-km long cycle rally in Noida, being flagged off by Dr Mahesh Sharma, Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Culture and Minister of State for Environment, Forest and Climate Change to promote the habit of cycling, in which over 500 cycling enthusiasts participated including V Nagarajan, Director (Commercial), IGl, senior officials and school children among others.